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Tossin’ It Out There: What’s YOUR Favorite Sci-Fi Film?

Alright, everyone. Inspired by the underwhelming “The Host” this past weekend, I thought it would be a good time to discuss GOOD Science Fiction movies.

Sci-Fi movies have a long lineage, dating all the way back to the earliest days of film, so there should be no shortage of choices for everyone.

It’s also a broad genre, encapsulating movies that seem to be more fantasy films set in space, such as “Star Wars”, or action movies set in space, such as the most recent “Star Trek”, to movies that are based around hardcore science and scientific endeavors. Any type of movie involving an alien is deemed Sci-Fi, from “Close Encounters” to “The Thing”.

So with so much to choose from, what will you choose? “Blade Runner”? “Dark City”? “Total Recall”?

Mine? Blade Runner, pretty much. Empire Strikes back is higher up on my favorites list in general, but if we’re going to talk about the Sci-Fi genre, I think Blade Runner represents more of what I think of when I think Sci Fi!😀

So am I the only one in the crowd who loved Avatar? I am not ashamed, I loved Avatar. Also high on my list are District 9, The Matrix, Star Wars IV and V (under protest but for simplicity’s sake I am using that numeration), V for Vendetta and Galaxy Quest! (Nothing wrong with a little space humor, is there?) Since you are asking for a tippy top choice, it’s Miyazaki’s Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind.

VFV is an interesting case. There’s very, very little about it that involves things that are futuristic or otherworldly. Maybe — maybe — V’s origin story, if you really believe everything that’s said about him. But the concepts play out like a classic sci-fi “reflect on our world through depictions of a fictional future” morality play.

I wondered if V was borderline. How would you classify it – Noir Fantasy? I’ll just say this, he does have an underground lair and it is a futuristic alternative reality London. I like the SW’77 nomenclature though it calls to mind Airport ’75 & ’77🙂

Probably gonna have to go for Alien on this one. I mean, it probably would have been Star Wars when I was a bit younger but now I can properly appreciate Alien, I reckon that’s my favourite. Hardly a groundbreaking answer, I know!

2001 is my favourite sci-fi (and my second favourite film of any genre). The rest of my Top Ten would include, in nor particular order, Star Wars, Blade Runner, Metropolis, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Brazil, Them!, Forbidden Planet and Alien. If King Kong counts as sci-fi (and I think it does) then that would actually be number two. So there ya go, a Top Eleven.